That's largely a result of both Russia's and the US's use of German scientists after the war. Many who worked on the same projects for the Third Reich were forced to work for opposing sides during the Cold War.

Operation Paperclip alone in America forced over 1600 German scientists to work for the Americans. The Soviets had similar programs.

Also most of our current technologies were invented by the Germans before and during the war, and since then we have just improved upon those designs, with almost no entirely new technologies (outside of computers).

That's largely a result of both Russia's and the US's use of German scientists after the war. Many who worked on the same projects for the Third Reich were forced to work for opposing sides during the Cold War.

Operation Paperclip alone in America forced over 1600 German scientists to work for the Americans. The Soviets had similar programs.

Also most of our current technologies were invented by the Germans before and during the war, and since then we have just improved upon those designs, with almost no entirely new technologies (outside of computers).

Yes... Us horrible, horrible Germans How are those technologies (including computers) working out for ya there world... You have this to maintain it when were gone.

It was bound to look at least a bit like the F-22 since the Russian AF had pretty much the same requirements for the PAK-FA as the USAF did for the F-22, and the laws of physics apply in Russia as well.

I personally think it looks like a Raptor/YF-23/SU-35 cross with lots of brand new high-tech gadgets.

Also, since the US has no intention of selling the F-22 (and the PAK-Fa will outperform it anyway) and the F-35 is an overpriced piece of crap that will enter full production at about the same time as the PAK-FA or even later, the Russians could potentially export the PAK-FA to dozens of countries if they price this wonderful plane competitively... That would of course spell disaster for the F-35 project.

The United States' top fighter jet, the Lockheed Martin F-22, has recently required more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the skies, pushing its hourly cost of flying to more than $44,000, a far higher figure than for the warplane it replaces, confidential Pentagon test results show.

The aircraft's radar-absorbing metallic skin is the principal cause of its maintenance troubles, with unexpected shortcomings -- such as vulnerability to rain and other abrasion -- challenging Air Force and contractor technicians since the mid-1990s, according to Pentagon officials, internal documents and a former engineer.

'Compromises'

Darrol Olsen, a specialist in stealth coatings who worked at Lockheed's testing laboratory in Marietta, Ga., from 1995 to 1999, said the current troubles are unsurprising. In a lawsuit filed under seal in 2007, he charged the company with violating the False Claims Act for ordering and using coatings that it knew were defective while hiding the failings from the Air Force.

He has cited a July 1998 report that said test results "yield the same problems as documented previously" in the skin's quality and durability, and another in December that year saying, "Baseline coatings failed." A Lockheed briefing that September assured the Air Force that the effort was "meeting requirements with optimized products."

"When I got into this thing . . . I could not believe the compromises" made by Lockheed to meet the Air Force's request for quick results, said Olsen, who had a top-secret clearance. "I suggested we go to the Air Force and tell them we had some difficulties . . . and they would not do that. I was squashed. I knew from the get-go that this material was bad, that this correcting it in the field was never going to work."

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Lets have the Jews delegate the next US fighter to be designed by Black and Asian women.

That's largely a result of both Russia's and the US's use of German scientists after the war. Many who worked on the same projects for the Third Reich were forced to work for opposing sides during the Cold War.

Operation Paperclip alone in America forced over 1600 German scientists to work for the Americans. The Soviets had similar programs.

Also most of our current technologies were invented by the Germans before and during the war, and since then we have just improved upon those designs, with almost no entirely new technologies (outside of computers).

Watch this how they are saying "Wow, it's amazing how the Germans could come up with a stealth plane over 60 years ago" ! Wow, what were these people drinking and eating eh??

Wow...if we would remove the jews from our government and stop sending our money over for the wars of Israel, and wow, if we stop electing braindead mulatto presidents, maybe we could move ahead into the future and come up with new technologies WOW!
And Wow! If we wouldn't race mix away and lower our IQ by doing so, we would be somewhere else, and WOW if we wouldn't taken WWII on the Communist side. Wow!